Ozric TentaclesPungent Effulgent

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Rock

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Space Rock

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Tracklist

Dissolution (The Clouds Disperse)
O-I
Phalarn Dawn
The Domes Of G'Bal
Ayurvedic
Kick Muck
Agog In The Ether

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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1989, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Demi Monde – DMLP 1017 UK 1989 UK1989
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1990, Cassette Pungent Effulgent
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    Dovetail Records – DOVE MC 2 UK 1990 UK1990
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1991-03-04, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Dovetail Records – DOVE CD 2 UK 1991 UK1991
    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1991-03-04, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Dovetail Records – DOVE LP 2 UK 1991 UK1991
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1993, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Dovetail Records – DOVE CD 2 UK 1993 UK1993
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1998, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Original Masters – GAS 0000545SMM UK 1998 UK1998
    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 1998, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Original Masters – 1 5545 2 US 1998 US1998
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2000, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Ozric Tentacles (2) – OTCD 01010308 Russia 2000 Russia2000
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2003-04-01, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Snapper Classics – SDPCD129 UK 2003 UK2003
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2004, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    2000 Fruit Gum – FCCD 01010308 Russia 2004 Russia2004
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2009, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Vinyl Lovers – 900549 Europe 2009 Europe2009
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2017-02-10, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Madfish – SMALP1068 UK 2017 UK2017
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2018, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Madfish – SMACDX1105 UK 2018 UK2018
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2020-05-19, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Kscope – KSCOPE1059 Europe 2020 Europe2020
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2020, CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Kscope – KSCOPE726 Europe 2020 Europe2020
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    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, 2022-05-13, Vinyl Pungent Effulgent
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    Kscope – KSCOPE1169 2022 2022
    Cover of Pungent Effulgent, , CD Pungent Effulgent
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    Original Masters – SMM CD 545 UK UK
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    Original Masters – SMM CD 545 UK UK
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    Dovetail Records – DOVE CD 2 UK UK
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    Reviews

    • pgross's avatar
      pgross
      Awesome mastering for this cd press . Highly recommended for those want to explore electronic music be it trance or techno . Agog In The Ether may be familiar as it was used as a sample in Future sound of London - Flak . I would love to get the vinyl version but this cd is good .
      • Csquare4's avatar
        Csquare4
        Sounds great, but disappointing pressing by Optimal unfortunately. Quite excessive low level surface noise on all 4 sides. Listening at a lower volume, the sound is full and dynamic...but crank it up where it should be and snap, crackle, pop. This after 2 wet cleans and a run through the ultrasonic cleaner.
        • happycamper72's avatar
          happycamper72
          This is the best release imo. Ed's remaster is missing 3 tracks and 33 minutes of music. All OM / Snapper sound just fine.
          • flowerbed's avatar
            flowerbed
            Edited one year ago
            Listening to my copy right now, currently on Phalarn Dawn (last track of Side One, as you know...or maybe not, I don't smoke so I take note of these things ha ha). The pressing is super quiet and clean. No surface noise in the very quiet sections. The music is compressed quite hard but so were Rush, Kings X and Queensryche in the days of 1989. I'm confident it would've been equally over-compressed back at the time of release.
            None of that matters if it's authentic and what's more it suits the vibe. Nothing leaps out to upset the potentially paranoid listener. :) Meanwhile have to say, I'm very surprised for such a wet production with tinklies, effects and dub sections that there's a rather small soundstage. Did he forget to pan things??

            Good luck finding a clean, undamaged original copy that's not been played to death or left out on the floor at parties. I'll happily go with this. Blissing out now to Side Two (ffffffp, exhaleeeee).
            • lillino's avatar
              lillino
              Edited 3 years ago
              just a fantastic psychedelic prog space dub ambient trance new age album, the first orzic I've listened to back in 1990 or something. It was a shocker. It still is.
              • Gorban's avatar
                Gorban
                Real good pressing. Good dynamics over all. And top album.
                • james1975n's avatar
                  james1975n
                  Many thanks for your response 👍 orders will be placed.
                  • james1975n's avatar
                    james1975n
                    Can anyone who owns this comment of the quality of the pressing and if the remaster is any good please, Many Thanks
                    • tantric_obstacles's avatar
                      Edited 13 years ago
                      Pungent Effulgent surely doesn’t feel like Ozric Tentacles’ debut to quite a few of their longtime fans. Five studio albums and one live one had preceded it, some of which could be argued to be of the same caliber.

                      It was the first one to come out on vinyl too. And thank god for that because a) it made them known outside the festival circuit and b) it has absolutely spectacular artwork.

                      Almost all the tunes are classic here, from the opening Dissolution – with vocals, no less! – a superb ever spiraling space rock band-jam, to the end of your version of choice: Agog In The Ether on vinyl, Wrelch on the Dovetail CD, or Ayurvedsim a near 20 minute mindblowing version of Ayurvedic on the Snapper reissue. Techno is not an influence yet, but you get generous helpings of space rock (live favourites Dissolution and Kick Muck), ambient (Phalarn Dawn and the CD-only Shaping The Pelm), Arabic-influenced ethnic (O-I and the first part of Ayurvedic) and the obligatory dub (The Domes Of G’Bal and the second part of Ayrvedic).

                      There are several links to the past: O-I had appeared on the There Is Nothing cassette with a slightly altered ‘chorus’ section, the middle climax of Ayurvedic – boy does this one make your brain explode live! – is borrowed from Eye Of Adia from The Bits Between The Bits and so is the whole of Wreltch, completely unchanged, and Kick Muck is lifted from Sliding Gliding Worlds minus the last couple of minutes of the ambient synth pad. I’m sure though that even though nearly half of the album had been released in one form or another the original fans didn’t feel cheated, firstly because they only had these tunes on tape and secondly because it dispelled any fears that the band’s style would change and they might abandon their fans now that they were attempting to go ‘overground’ – as if. For me as a later fan with no access to the tapes at the time all this went completely unnoticed of course.

                      Although there had been great improvement in production values since the band’s first tape in ’85, the sound is dated by modern production standards. Sometimes the individual sounds lack definition and distinction from each other, but at the time the overall production must have been cutting edge. Furthermore, dated doesn’t automatically mean cheesy in my book – nostalgic maybe, but not like 80s electronic music at all. All in all, I don’t have a problem with the sound of this one at all myself. And in the Snapper version the sound has been improved.

                      Which brings us to the last point: I strongly recommend getting this version, as apart from the sound issue, it has improved the colours of the original artwork, has liner notes about the story and importance of the album by Richard Allen of Delerium Records fame, who witnessed its impact at the time it was released (I always love reading these s) AND Ayurvedsim. What more can you ask for?

                      On a personal note, this album has a special place in my heart, as it was the first Ozrics CD I owned, though somebody had given me a recorded tape ( those?) of Erpland which had converted me before. Sentimentalisms aside, this is a great, professional album, the first of many to follow. For me it’s part of the ‘holy trinity’ of studio albums together with the two that followed and defined the early to mid-90s Ozrics sound. A must have.
                      10/10

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